1-1 By: McReynolds (Senate Sponsor - Ambrister) H.B. No. 2597 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 1999; 1-3 April 20, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Natural Resources; May 10, 1999, reported favorably by the 1-5 following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 10, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to emissions from certain hospital or medical 1-9 disinfectants. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 382, Health and Safety 1-12 Code, is amended by adding Section 382.0201 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 382.0201. PROHIBITION ON COMMISSION RULE RELATING TO 1-14 EMISSIONS FROM CERTAIN HOSPITAL OR MEDICAL DISINFECTANTS. (a) In 1-15 this section, "hospital or medical disinfectant" means an 1-16 antimicrobial product that is registered with and meets the 1-17 performance standards of the United States Environmental Protection 1-18 Agency under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide 1-19 Act (7 U.S.C. Sections 136, 136a). 1-20 (b) Except as specifically required to comply with federal 1-21 law or regulation, the commission may not adopt a rule that lessens 1-22 the efficacy of a hospital or medical disinfectant in killing or 1-23 inactivating agents of an infectious disease, including a rule 1-24 restricting volatile organic compound content of or emissions from 1-25 the disinfectant. 1-26 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-27 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-28 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-29 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-30 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-31 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-32 * * * * *